Huge energy consumption has become a critical bottleneck for further applying large-scale cluster systems to build new data centers. Among various components of a data center, sto...
Ziliang Zong, Matt Briggs, Nick O'Connor, Xiao Qin
—A policy can be defined as any type of formal behavioural guide that is input to the system. Examples of policies that can be found in data center management systems include SLA...
Recent advances in hardware and software virtualization offer unprecedented management capabilities for the mapping of virtual resources to physical resources. It is highly desira...
Xiaoyun Zhu, Donald Young, Brian J. Watson, Zhikui...
It is envisaged that services and applications will migrate to a cloud-computing paradigm where thin-clients on userdevices access, over the network, applications hosted in data c...
Fang Hao, T. V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee, Haoyu S...
This paper presents BCube, a new network architecture specifically designed for shipping-container based, modular data centers. At the core of the BCube architecture is its serve...
Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Dan Li, Haitao Wu, Xuan...
We introduce the coupled placement problem for modern data centers spanning placement of application computation and data among available server and storage resources. While the t...
Abstract—Performance and power issues are becoming increasingly important in the design of large cluster based multitier data centers for supporting a multitude of services. Desi...
Many data center virtualization solutions, such as VMware ESX, employ content-based page sharing to consolidate the resources of multiple servers. Page sharing identifies virtual...
Timothy Wood, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Prashant J. S...
Data centers avoid IP Multicast because of a series of problems with the technology. We propose Dr. Multicast (MCMD), a system that maps IPMC operations to a combination of point-...